Hello world travel fans!
Today for our informative update, it’s time for a little info on Canada! Did you know for instance that tea-friendly, Granny-loving, English-wannabe city, Victoria is the capital of British Columbia? I didn’t until we visited. Don’t say you never learn anything reading this blog!
Despite its status as the North American capital of overpriced cream teas, Victoria is actually quite a cool place - having interesting cafes, boutique shops and a small, but characterful Chinatown (more of a Chinavillage, but hey). The biggest bonus to us just now, however, is the FREE internet (remember folks, cheap is good, FREE IS BEST!) we can get by hooking up our borrowed (in other words, temporarily FREE!) laptop. This is especially useful as we have quite a bit of time on our hands (because we’re being incredibly lazy at times so have plenty of time to check out things like emails, football results, celebrity gossip (not really…). Anyway, because it’s free, we’re taking full advantage.
Anyway, today, we got as far north as Nanaimo. We reached here by way of Chemainus which is apparently world famous for its murals. We found it to be a quaint little place with nice tearooms (where we lingered over our tea and snacks to escape the freezing cold!).
In the next few days we’ll be exploring more of the island and experiencing more of what is on offer here. We’re already thinking that we’ll need to come back at some point because we don’t really have enough time to do the whole island justice - but I’m sure we’ll be back in Seattle at some point.